When Irene Collier Bruce was born on 13 July 1839, in Ohio, Kentucky, United States, her father, Horatio Bruce, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth Collier, was 29. She married George Washington Beasley on 18 December 1855, in Hamilton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Caldwell Township, Sumner, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Caldwell, Sumner, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 9 September 1912, in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Eastside Cemetery, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kansas is the 34th state
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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